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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

North Carolina · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 3702970 · cmsk12.org · (980) 343-6270

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is the only school district serving 25 of the 37 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 9 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 3. It covers 478,966 homes and 1,115,482 residents. By homes covered it ranks 1st of the 118 districts in North Carolina.

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

At 915 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools covers 524 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

  • Homes inside the boundary478,966
  • Residents1,115,482
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches37
  • Where it is the only district25
  • Where it shares with another district9
  • Where it holds under half a percent3
  • Land area524 square miles
  • Homes per square mile915

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 28277 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 28282 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

  • ZIP Code 28277 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28205 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28216 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28210 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28226 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28273 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28212 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28208 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28214 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28211 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28031 · Cornelius, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28209 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28270 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28278 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28217 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28202 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28203 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28206 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28204 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28134 · Pineville, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28207 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28223 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28280 · Charlotte, North Carolina6 of 6 homes
  • ZIP Code 28274 · Charlotte, North Carolina2 of 2 homes
  • ZIP Code 28262 · Charlotte, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28227 · Mint Hill, North Carolina99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28105 · Matthews, North Carolina99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28213 · Charlotte, North Carolina99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28269 · Charlotte, North Carolina96% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28215 · Charlotte, North Carolina96% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28078 · Huntersville, North Carolina95% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28036 · Davidson, North Carolina78% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28107 · Midland, North Carolina4.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28104 · Weddington, North Carolina2.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28027 · Concord, North Carolina13 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 28244 · Charlotte, North Carolinano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 28282 · Charlotte, North Carolinano homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is the largest district in 32 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 5,780 of the 484,343 homes those areas hold — though in 24 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools holds 6,188 of the 7,963 homes in ZIP Code 28036 · Davidson, North Carolina, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 1,739 homes with Cabarrus County Schools and Iredell-Statesville Schools; 36 homes in districts too small to name here.

ZIP Code 28269 · Charlotte, North Carolina is a two-district area: 30,861 of its 32,119 homes are inside Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, and the other 1,258 homes are with Cabarrus County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 28078 · Huntersville, North Carolina the split runs 25,329 to 1,199 and the larger part is Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools': the rest is 1,199 homes with Cabarrus County Schools.

In ZIP Code 28031 · Cornelius, North Carolina the single-name answer is the true one: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools holds all 14,150 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 28134 · Pineville, North Carolina is another area where one name covers everything — 5,290 homes, all of them inside Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 28104 · Weddington, North Carolina — Union County leads it — and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools holds 245 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 28107 · Midland, North Carolina is another area where Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is present without being the answer: 145 of its 3,534 homes, behind Cabarrus County Schools.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Cabarrus County Schools, Union County and Iredell-Statesville Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Cabarrus County Schools38,513 homes in 7 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Union County Public Schools12,322 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Iredell-Statesville Schools237 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Stanly County Schools42 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Cabarrus County Schools, Union County, Iredell-Statesville Schools and Stanly County Schools. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

  • Cabarrus County Schools6 shared ZIP areas
  • Union County Public Schools4 shared ZIP areas
  • Iredell-Statesville Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Stanly County Schools1 shared ZIP area

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Cabarrus County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 28036 · Davidson, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28078 · Huntersville, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28107 · Midland, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28213 · Charlotte, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28215 · Charlotte, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28269 · Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Union County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 28104 · Weddington, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28105 · Matthews, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28107 · Midland, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28227 · Mint Hill, North Carolina

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Iredell-Statesville Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 28036 · Davidson, North Carolina

Have a street address?

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What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 9 of the 37 ZIP Code areas Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.